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Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov writes: |
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> You most likely want to install that software in /usr/local as per |
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> Gentoo's filesystem layout [1]. The way you can do that with |
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> autotoolized software is like this: |
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> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local |
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> make |
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> make install |
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> I don't know what you mean by making Portage recognize the software |
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> installed this way. Do you want Portage to be able to uninstall and/or |
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> upgrade this software? If so, the simple answer is you it can't do |
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> that. You have to manage the software outside of Portage yourself. |
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Additionally, I like to have the stuff separated in sub-directories |
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of /usr/local, and use stow or better xstow to create symlinks, so the |
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software appears to be installed directly in /usr/local. |
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emerge xstow |
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mkdir /usr/local/stow |
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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/foo-1.2.3 && make && make install |
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cd /usr/local/stow |
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xstow foo-1.2.3 |
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To later uninstall, without the need to use "make uninstall": |
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cd /usr/local/stow |
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xstow -D foo-1.2.3 |
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\rm -r foo-1.2.3 |
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Or to try out a newer version of foo, without deleting foo-1.2.3: |
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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/foo-1.2.4 && make && make install |
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cd /usr/local/stow |
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xstow -D foo-1.2.3 |
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xstow foo-1.2.4 |
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Alex |
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